‘The Last Voyage of the Demeter’: Everything about the journey to London of Bram Stoker’s Dracula

Universal took advantage of the release of ‘Renfield’, where Nicolas Cage plays Dracula in what could be considered a comedic sequel to Bela Lugosi’s 1931 vampire classic, to release the first trailer for ‘The Last Voyage of the Demeter’, the film that adapts the diary of the captain of the ship that transports Dracula to London in the novel by Bram Stoker.

In the original 1897 book, the Demeter is a Russian sailing ship hired by Dracula to transport him from his home country of Wallachia to England. The crew doesn’t know they have the Vampire Lord on board, but once the Demeter’s sailors begin to disappear one by one, the captain becomes convinced that an evil force lurks on the ship.

Although the story of Demeter occupies only one chapter in the novel, André Øvredal (‘The Autopsy of Jane Doe’) will adapt the terrifying journey of the ship into one of the most anticipated horror movies of 2023. This is all we know about ‘The Last Voyage of the Demeter’: Release date, cast, synopsis…

‘The Last Voyage of the Demeter’: Release date

The film about Dracula’s ‘Last Voyage of Demeter’ It will be released in the US on August 11.but we still do not have confirmation on whether that will be the date chosen for its launch in Spain.

2023 will be an especially “vampiric” year with the premieres of this film, of ‘Renfield’, of ‘The Mystery of Salem’s Lot’, of ‘The Count’ by Pablo Larraín…

‘The Last Voyage of the Demeter’: Synopsis

In chapter 7 of Bram Stoker’s novel, the captain’s journal entries recount the Demeter’s voyage from Carpathia, where they pick up a strange private shipment: 24 strange and heavy wooden boxes that will be delivered to London. At first, the trip seems normal, but things quickly take a sinister turn. First a strange man is seen on board, then crew members begin to disappear…

The captain finally realizes that some kind of evil supernatural creature is stalking his crew, taking them out one by one. In the final, chilling journal entry, he holds a rosary in his hands and straps himself to the mast, determined to brave the monster and the storms to the last. When the schooner barely makes it to its next port, there is no one on board except a clearly crazed man..

The film will follow various characters including a doctor, the ship’s captain and first mate, and a stowaway who clearly chose the wrong ship.

‘The Last Voyage of the Demeter’: Cast

‘The Last Voyage of Demeter’ stars corey hawkins (‘Straight Outta Compton’) as Clemens, a doctor who comes aboard the ship. Aisling Franciosiwho we saw in ‘Game of Thrones’ as Lyanna Stark, plays Anna, a young stowaway who helps fight the ruthless vampire. liam cunningham (also seen on ‘Game of Thrones’ as Davos Seaworth) will play the captain of the ship and David Dastmalchian (‘Suicide Squad’) will play the ship’s first mate, Wojchek.

The man with a thousand faces of Spanish terror, Javier Botetwill be in charge of getting into the skin of Dracula himself after having participated in the sagas of ‘Rec’, ‘Warren File’ and ‘Alien’, among many (many) others.

The cast is completed with the names of Jon Jon Briones, Stefan Kapicic, Nikolai Nikolaeff, Woody Norman, Martin Furulund, Nicolo Pasetti and Chris Walley.

‘The Last Voyage of the Demeter’: Poster

‘The Last Voyage of the Demeter’: Trailer

The first trailer only confirms that André Øvredal will expand the story of the original novel contributing new characters and new subtexts, and presenting a more “animal” (Nosferatu roll) and less sophisticated Dracula than the one we are used to seeing when referring to the gothic origins of the character.